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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
Lawyer
Military Officer
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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